Re: Benjamin Rush quote

Hardly any of us in our world today can do entirely without money.

But debt heightens this temptation for us to "shut up" and say whatever pleases the powers that be, rather than to speak our own minds, or speculate our own thoughts about things, rather than the convenient "prescribed" thinking that is dished out to us, from here and there.

So we say that we have freedom of speech, and yes we do.

But we also must realize that when we are in debt, we often must succomb to saying whatever keeps the money rolling in, and that true freedom of speech becomes more just an ideal, legend, or fairy-tale, than a reality.